16 RUBIACEE (Sond.) [Canthiwm. 
house of Bolstadt, a famous philosopher and theologian of the thirteenth century, 
who wrote a treatise in seven books ‘* De Vegetabilibus et Plantis.” 
1, A. magna (E. Mey. in Herb. Dreg.) Harv. Thes. Cap. p. 29, t. 45. 
Has. On hills between Omsamcabe and Omsamculo, 1000-2000 feet, Drege ; Port 
Natal, Gerrard & M‘Ken, No. 1358, Jan.—Feb. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
Young branches reddish brown, glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, oblong or 
elliptical-oblong, 4-5 inches long, 13-2 inches broad, flat, with recurved margins, 
penninerved. Panicle large. Pedicels pubescent, bracteate at the base. Calyx 
shortly tomentose. Corolla 1 inch long, the segments obliquely ovate, acute. Sta- 
mens inserted in the middle of the tube. Fruit oval, nearly 3 lines long, its scarlet, 
winglike, larger, much veined lobes, 10-12 lines long, 2-3 lines broad. 
TRIBE V.—COFFEACEZ (Gen. IX.-XIV.) 
IX. CANTHIUM, Lam. 
Calyx-tube ovate, limb short, 4—5 toothed. Corolla with a short tube, 
a bearded throat, and 4-5 spreading lobes, with valvate estivation. 
Anthers 4-5 in the throat, scarcely exserted. Style filiform, exserted, 
Stigma undivided, thick, ovato-globose, or mitre-formed. Berry glo- 
bose, or didymous, crowned with the calyx teeth, fleshy, 2-celled, 
Seeds solitary in each cell. Albumen fleshy. DC. J. ¢. 4, p. 473. 
Shrubs with spinous or unarmed branches. Leaves opposite, coriaceous. Stipules 
solitary. Peduncles axillary, short, many-flowered. Canti is the Malabar name of 
one of the species. 
1, C. Gueinzii (Sond. Linnea, vol. 23, 1, p. 54); unarmed, branch- 
lets pubescent ; leaves shortly petiolate, oblong, cuspidate-acuminate, sub- 
cordate, netted-veined, veins pellucid, glabrous, shining above, a little 
hairy on the nerves beneath ; cymes pedunculate, bifid, many-flowered, 
4-times shorter than the leaves; peduncles, pedicels as well as the 5-toothed 
calyx pubescent ; corolla glabrous outside, lobes revolute, as long as the 
tube ; style exserted, stigma mitre-formed. 
Has. Natal, Gueinzius, 71, 576. Gerr. & M‘K. 709. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
Stipules broad, cuspidate-acuminate, hairy. Leaves reddish, 3}-4 inches long, 
14-14 inch broad ; the petiole 2 lines long. Peduncle of the cyme half an inch; the 
pedicels bracteolate. Calyx about 1 line long, with very short, teeth. Corolla 
2% lines long; throat and tube bearded within ; lobes acute, revolute, as long as the 
tube. Distinguished from the similar Canth. Cornelia, Cham. and Schl. ( Pavetta 
Cornelia, Reichb. in Sieb. pl. Senegal) by the much larger leaves, petioles and calyx 
not being villous, shorter calyx-teeth, and smaller flowers. 
2. C. obovatum (Klotzsch. in E. Z. Enum. n, 2293); unarmed, 
glabrous ; leaves shortly petiolate, obovate or elliptical, subacute at the 
base, shining above, paler below, few-nerved ; cymes axillary, tricho- 
tomous, many-flowered, shorter or equalling the leaves ; peduneles, pedi- 
cels, and calyz glabrous; corolla glabrous, lobes revolute ; style exserted ; 
stigma mitre-formed. Mitrastigma lucidum Harv.! in Lond. Jour. Bot. 
vol. 1,p.20. Thes.Cap.t.22. Phallaria lucida, Hochst.! Flora, 1842, 
p. 238. Psychotria obtusifolia, E. Mey. et Psychot, 2361. Herb, Drege. 
Var. 8. pyrifolium ; leaves elliptic or suborbicular, obtuse at the base. . pyri- 
folium Klotzsch, E. Z. 2294, et Ehretia? 62. 
Has. In distr. Ui near Adow, Winterhoeksberg, Z. & Z. ; Glenfilling 
and near Strandfontein and Matjesfontein, Dreye ; Van Stadesberg, Zeyh, 2706 ; 
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